Malcolm McKenzie

London’s Spitalfields Market was the location of one of the city’s largest archaeological excavations, carried out by MOLA between 1991 and 2007. This book presents the archaeological and bioarchaeological evidence for Roman activity here, to the north-east of the urban settlement and the site of a series of burial grounds on the east side of Ermine Street. Burial began here c AD 120 and continued into the 4th century AD. Excavation revealed a number of ditched enclosures, some used for the interment of 169 inhumations and five cremation burials, some for other purposes. Among the early burials men outnumbered women by five to one, but by the later 3rd and 4th centuries AD a more even sex ratio prevailed. Subadults were well represented, with one area apparently set aside for the burial of neonates and children. The cemetery attracted some particularly wealthy 4th-century AD burials, including at least two in stone sarcophagi, one of which contained an inner, decorated, lead coffin enclosing a young woman. She had been anointed with imported resins and buried in fine clothing, with unusual glassware and jet items. Some burial rites and grave goods are more familiar from Continental cemeteries, emphasising the cosmopolitan and mobile nature of London’s population.

Through arrogance human civilization has Fallen. For three centuries, demons and the Darkness have haunted what remains of mankind. But new forces of light and dark are rising. Minos is a young man of the shunned race known as the Select. Called by a prophet to aid in her mission, he must choose whether to fight - and how. Will humanity's selfishness and jealousy drag it back into the darkness, or will it pass through into the light? The Complete Cycle contains the five books of Passing Through Darkness.

After the Battle of Darkness Falling, Our Lady and the Darkness Radiant stand ready to confront the world's remaining evils. But in passing through darkness, Minos must confront the sacrifices required to face the enemy without and within.

The armies of Our Lady and the Darkness Radiant are massing for war - each claiming to be the hope of humanity's salvation. As a reckoning approaches and the Darkness grows in the Sorrows, Minos struggles with the costs of victory.

With the Darkness in him, Minos has become a force to be reckoned with. The question is, a force for what? Called to Darkness is the third of the five books of Passing through Darkness.

Minos has delivered Prophetess to her destination and wants no more to do with the war between Our Lady and the Darkness. But sometimes when we flee, we run straight into the arms of what we fear.

Civilization has fallen. Mankind lives in fear of demons and the Darkness. Minos is a young man of the shunned race known as the Select. When he's asked by a prophet to escort her across the continent and confront a new horror, the journey will challenge her faith and his reason.